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Pre-Owned Ancient Commentators...Paul Lettinck has restored a lost text of Philoponus by translating it for the... Paul Lettinck has restored a lost text of Philoponus by translating it for the first time from Arabic (only limited fragments have survived in the original Greek). The text recovered from annotations in an Arabic translation of Aristotle is an... more
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Ancient Commentators on Aristo...Paul Lettinck has restored a lost text of Philoponus by translating it for the... Paul Lettinck has restored a lost text of Philoponus by translating it for the first time from Arabic (only limited fragments have survived in the original Greek). The text recovered from annotations in an Arabic translation of Aristotle is an... more
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Pre-Owned Ancient Commentators...In this commentary on Aristotle Physics book eight chapters one to five the si... In this commentary on Aristotle Physics book eight chapters one to five the sixth-century philosopher Simplicius quotes and explains important fragments of the Presocratic philosophers provides the fragments of his Christian opponent Philoponus... more
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Pre-Owned Ancient Commentators...In this commentary on Aristotle Physics book eight chapters one to five the si... In this commentary on Aristotle Physics book eight chapters one to five the sixth-century philosopher Simplicius quotes and explains important fragments of the Presocratic philosophers provides the fragments of his Christian opponent Philoponus... more
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Pre-Owned Ancient Commentators...The earlier part of the commentary by Philoponus on Aristotle s On the Soul is... The earlier part of the commentary by Philoponus on Aristotle s On the Soul is translated by William Charlton in another volume in the series. This volume includes the latter part of the commentary along with a translation of Stephanus commentary on... more
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Pre-Owned Ancient Commentators...Until the launch of this series over fifteen years ago the 15 000 volumes of t... Until the launch of this series over fifteen years ago the 15 000 volumes of the ancient Greek commentators on Aristotle written mainly between 200 and 600 AD constituted the largest corpus of extant Greek philosophical writings not translated into... more
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Pre-Owned Ancient Commentators...Simplicius greatest contribution in his commentary on Aristotle on Physics 1.5... Simplicius greatest contribution in his commentary on Aristotle on Physics 1.5-9 lies in his treatment of matter. The sixth-century philosopher starts with a valuable elucidation of what Aristotle means by principle and element in Physics.... more
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Pre-Owned Ancient Commentators...Philoponus commentary on the last part of Aristotle s Physics Book 4 does not ... Philoponus commentary on the last part of Aristotle s Physics Book 4 does not offer major alternatives to Aristotle s science as did his commentary on the earlier parts concerning place vacuum and motion in a vacuum. Aristotle s subject here is time... more
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Pre-Owned Ancient Commentators...Simplicius the greatest surviving ancient authority on Aristotle s Physics liv... Simplicius the greatest surviving ancient authority on Aristotle s Physics lived in the sixth century A. D. He produced detailed commentaries on several of Aristotle s works. Those on the Physics which alone come to over 1 300 pages in the original... more
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Pre-Owned Ancient Commentators...Simplicius greatest contribution in his commentary on Aristotle on Physics 1.5... Simplicius greatest contribution in his commentary on Aristotle on Physics 1.5-9 lies in his treatment of matter. The sixth-century philosopher starts with a valuable elucidation of what Aristotle means by principle and element in Physics.... more
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Pre-Owned Ancient Commentators...Book 3 of Aristotle s Physics primarily concerns two important concepts for hi... Book 3 of Aristotle s Physics primarily concerns two important concepts for his theory of nature: change and infinity. Change is important because in Book 2 he has defined nature - the subject-matter of the Physics - as an internal source of change.... more
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Pre-Owned Ancient Commentators...Aristotle s Physics is about the causes of motion and culminates in a proof th... Aristotle s Physics is about the causes of motion and culminates in a proof that God is needed as the ultimate cause of motion. Aristotle argues that things in motion need to be moved by something other than themselves - he rejects Plato s... more
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Pre-Owned Ancient Commentators...In this volume Simplicius deals with Aristotle s account of the Presocratics a... In this volume Simplicius deals with Aristotle s account of the Presocratics and for many of them he is our chief or even sole authority. He quotes at length from Melissus Parmenides and Zeno sometimes from their original works but also from later... more
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Pre-Owned Ancient Commentators...This companion to J. O. Urmson s translation in the same series of Simplicius ... This companion to J. O. Urmson s translation in the same series of Simplicius Corollaries on Place and Time contains Simplicius commentary on the chapters on place and time in Aristotle s Physics book 4. It is a rich source for the preceding 800... more
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Pre-Owned Ancient Commentators...Aristotle s Physics Book 3 covers two subjects: the definition of change and t... Aristotle s Physics Book 3 covers two subjects: the definition of change and the finitude of the universe. Change enters into the very definition of nature as an internal source of change. Change receives two definitions in chapters 1 and 2 as... more
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